Zapping your brain enhances your love of classic art

Zaira Cattaneo at the University of Milan Bicocca in Italy and her colleagues showed paintings to 12 people. Each rated the images before and after receiving either mock treatment or transcranial direct current stimulation, which delivers a low current via electrodes on the head, to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) – a brain area involved in processing emotion.